Update 7/1/13

We have chosen our new date for filming. Which will be next tuesday, we decided to reshoot our performance as  we were not satisfied with the quality of the footage. Our performance will depend largely on if we are able to get an electric drum kit or not. If we cannot obtain the drum kit we are going to take our music video in a more tongue in cheek tone with them playing virtual instruments (rock band/guitar hero) so far we have decided to go against a lot of the typical conventions of folk rock.

Our Current State In Production

Now we have got our narrative and part of our performance out of the way we are going to make the decision on what we should ideally be doing next as we have completed our schedule. As we are currently not satisfied with our performance shots and we'd like to get some shots in of a higher quality from different angles. We would also like to get some drum shots as we encountered some problems with getting drums in our music video. An obstacle that we still have yet to overcome.

 In terms of our filming we have been very prepared so far, we checked the weather report and planned our day in order to get our stuff. We are planning to film the last of our footage by January and we will need to prep until then to get all the equipment we need.

Breaking Folk Rock Conventions

We have decided to break conventions of Folk Rock, not only in just including a narrative but in attempting to make the music video more light hearted and comical. This is because so far I have been unimpressed with how many folk rock videos lack personality.

We wanted to go against this and take influences in our video from other subgenres of rock. We have done this in our narrative but we are also going to attempt to capture this in our narrative.

In addition to this we are breaking conventions of Folk Rock in having a carribean singer. As folk rock is entirely white dominated amongst it's artists (something very true of rock in general) we have chosen to have a black singer perform in our music video. This was at first not intentional, as he was in fact just the person who mimed the best (he was originally intended to be our bassist) and then we chose to have him as both bassist and singer.

We have decided to use this fact to break the conventions of Folk Rock within our music video.

Narrative Filming Complete

Sunday we successfully completed the filming of our narrative. We filmed James as our living statue stalking a girl through a park.
In addition to this we also filmed a few additional shots as we were unable to decide on whether to end with our tongue in cheek ending or instead take a second twist ending with him in fact stalking multiple women.
We have taken several photographs of our process of painting James:

While 5 hours of filming did prove to be very tiring however everything went well without any problems.